The corridor of uncertainty: Why aren't open educational resources being used? - 33 views
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OER Open Educational Resources tradition openness approval trust comfort education learning teaching resources
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the main reasons behind the reluctance to use OER are the following:
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Tradition. My course, my class, my classroom, my way. Teachers are proudly independent and proud of their courses and teaching methods.
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Concern about openness. Many are worried about digital rights and have been brought up to believe that you must protect your own work from theft.
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Lack of official approval. Even if many teachers are highly self-sufficient there is still a great respect for authorities.
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Trust. Linked to all the above but many teachers are uneasy about the trustworthiness of material found on the net. There's a perception that anything that's free on the net can't be very valuable and that printed material with a price tag is automatically more credible. We need quality assurance and some kind of faculty peer review to build trust.
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Comfort: Textbooks are designed a certain way to offer a bundle of curriculum bliss, topped with slides and quizzes. OER need to be found, sequenced, and often require to fill in the gaps. That's scary work for some faculty.
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1. Help each other to find what we believe is good OER in "our" subject areas.2. Create a system and agree on how to (meta)tag OER we found in a similar way (with subject area, level, learning outcomes, language,type of media etc.) and make everyone use this. 3. Make it possible for users (teachers & students) to evaluate(rate)and review OER in a similar way that we today rate books,hotels ( like at Amazone.com, Hotels.com etc). 4. Create a way to show all this in one place on Internet